Motivated by the pandemic Covid-19 outbreak, the study analyses the spanish healthcare system in order to question the adopted administrative-based approach with a GIS-based strategy, supported by geospatial analytics and grounded on local data. Through cumulative cost analysis and their relative catchment areas, it reports how large sections of the elderly population are disconnected to the health facilities.
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The map draws the degree of reachability of the Spanish healthcare system over the inland national territory. It is obtained by merging multiple cumulative cost analysis, which simulate the time spent from each hospital to reach every portion of land according to the road infrastructure and the terrain morphology.
This map highlights the geolocalized unbalances of the national healthcare system and reports the absolute availabilty of beds per hospital
Based on the accessibility analysis, the map extracts the catchment areas of the Spanish healthcare system. It partitions the country into zones depending on the most reachable hospital. This becomes relevant to compare the availability of beds and of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of each hospital in relation to the number of citizens they would serve by proximity.
The radius of the circles is representative of the number of beds in the hospital per 1000persons while the color shows the availability of Intensive care units. The latter is mapped from regional data and it is indicatory.
Once the settlments are associeted to their local degree of available assistance, the analysis focuses on the specificity of the pandemic outbreak. It reports the number of Covid-19 cases per region and highlights the settlements at a higher risk in consideration to the total population and the median age.
These features are represented respectively as the radius of the dots and their brightness.